Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.